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At age 17, Cherry Rhodes made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and later performed many times under the baton of Eugene Ormandy as well as numerous guest conductors. Rhodes ...

Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s Sibylline Prophecies 2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising Vom Pagen und der Königstochter O...

Published: Wh en John Wilson’s recording of Korngold’s Symphony in F sharp thundered out of its CD like a musical typhoon, I knew I’d found my personal record of the year. Few other conductors ‘get’ the sweep and bite of Korngold’s style to such a fine degree and the playing was simply awe-inspiring. Advertisement Meeting the British conductor after a recording session with the same orchestra – his newly convened Sinfonia of London (SoL) – it strikes me that his affinit...

(5 out of 5 stars) "If you are going to own only one CD of Hindemiths music, I urge you to make it this one. The Mathis der Maler symphony (1934) and the Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber (1943) are probably Paul Hindemiths two greatest orchestral works. The music is appealing, vital, beautifully crafted, accessible, bristling with a masculine vigor, exuberance, energy. Blomstedt is arguably the foremost Hindemith conductor of our day; these performances are expert, heartfelt, and ...

Martin Cullingford Friday, April 16, 2021 Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the May issue, which includes: Leif Ove Andsness reflections on Mozart, a pioneering new choral recording in a virtual acoustic and a tribute to the great horn player Dennis Brain Classical recording is a living art form – and as such has a past, present and future. And those interwoven threads of heritage, modernity and looking ahead are something we endeavour to explore in every issue ...

U.S.-China relationship is in a tough spot, but its not a new Cold War Why not? Let Beethoven explain.  By Trudy Rubin Philadelphia Inquirer April 15, 2021 — 11:19am Text size Copy shortlink: If you want to under...

Monday, March 15, 2021 This year, everyone will be able to watch the Rubinstein Competition online, plus a few digital extras Daniil Trifonov (photo: Yaira Yasmin) One should probably never compare a piano competition to the Pope - anyway not every Pope can play piano (though Pope Benedict XVI certainly does, as evidenced by a video doing the rounds on YouTube of him playing some Schubert, very creditably). But it is a well-known custom that, when selected for the Papacy, the ca...

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Dominique Faget—AFP/Getty Images Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, seen here in a photo from 1982, was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1955 until his resignation in 1989. While performing in Bejing in the 70s, Karajan made many demands that upset the philharmonics hosts and local musicians. Melodies of My Youth From the Caixin Editors The caution with which many older Chinese approach personal or family history reflects Asian modesty as well as a relu...